Taking Care of Bitcoin

Bitcoin is for Developers!

  Today we talk with developer Josh Swift and hear his amazing story about recovering Bitcoin from 2010!

• Early days of Bitcoin
• Rediscovering Bitcoin over a decade later
• Bitcoin is hope for a better future
• Personality types that gravitate toward Bitcoin
• Lack of financial education
• Motivation for open source coding
• Incentives of Bitcoin
• Self-custody best practices
• Great minds contributing to Bitcoin

And more!

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Today we answer the question: What Happens When Bitcoin is Lost?

• Self-custody means self-control
• Bitcoin never leave the network
• Common causes of lost Bitcoin
• Consequences of lost Bitcoin
• Will we "Run out of Bitcoin?"
• Divisibility supports growth

And more!

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Bitcoin is for Policy Advocates!

  Today we talk with Michigan Bitcoin Trade Council Executive Director Amber Harris about...

• Need to understand the problem to see the solution
• Bitcoin is a non-partisan issue
• Educating legislators on Bitcoin
• Economic damage caused by money printing
• Trump vs. The FED
• Opportunity for individuals to front run
• Possibility of a new monetary regime emerging
• Protecting against the mathematical reality of accel...

Bitcoin is for CPAs!

  Today we talk with Certified Public Accountant and Entrepreneur Betsy Morem about...

• Risk happens fast
• Bitcoin is not an investment, it's a monetary migration
• S-curve of technology adoption
• Timeframe for Bitcoin to become a medium of exchange
• Stablecoin proliferation
• Adapt or die moment for businesses
• Bitcoin destroying the hidden tax of inflation
• Monetary regime change on the horizon
• Do not miss the digital g...

Today we check back in with TCB Episode 18 guest Mark Young!

  We discuss...

• The innovation of digital scarcity
• Primary demand drivers
• Approaching a threshold of inevitability
• Remaining addressable market 
• Generational shift toward digital assets
• Wealth inequality driven by fiat debasement
• Inevitable debt spiral
• First mover advantage
• Working for money that respects you
• Inability to "redistribute" Bitcoin
• Ownership is not control
• M...

Bitcoin is for the Shipyard!

  Today we talk with Sheet Metal Mechanic Russell Thomas about...

• De-mystifying self-custody
• Bitcoin emerging as a safe haven asset
• It is not a trade, it's a monetary migration
• Bitcoin as a bearer asset
• The discovery of digital scarcity
• Bitcoin draining the fixed income market
• Filters on Bitcoin
• Are there any other uses for blockchain?
• Will Bitcoin be currency?

And more!

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Yes, THE Jason Maier, author of A PROGRESSIVE'S CASE FOR BITCOIN!

  Today we talk with Jason about...

• Concern over continued politicization of Bitcoin
• Recent political wins for Bitcoin
• Hostility of the prior presidential administration
• Need for Democrats to differentiate themselves on Bitcoin
• Lack of fundamental fairness in the current economic system
• Myth that inflation is required for a healthy economy
• Paradox of requiring growt...

Today we answer the question: What is Bitcoin "Backed" By?

• Evolution of money
• Parameters of good money
• Why did gold fail as money?
• Monetary premium locked in other assets
• Benefits of intangible money
• Bitcoin is engineered to replace all inferior moneys

And more!

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Today we check back in with TCB Episode 16 guest Valerie Minos!

  We discuss...

• What is Bitcoin "backed" by?
• Is 21 million Bitcoin enough?
• Bitcoin is not a trade, it is a monetary migration
• Parallel money systems proving Bitcoin's superiority
• Faltering bonds and the dire U.S. fiscal position
• Are you taxed for holding Bitcoin?
• Simplicity of the Bitcoin value proposition
• Is Bitcoin a threat to Real Estate?
• Broken money is ca...

Today we answer the question: Can I Make Money with Bitcoin?

• Bitcoin is the best performing asset
• 5 year return of Bitcoin vs. other assets
• Feeling that you're too late
• Overall addressable market for Bitcoin
• Risk of trading Bitcoin and missing best days
• Bitcoin is a monetary migration
• Bitcoin is the money
• "It might make sense just to get some in case it catches on."

And more!

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Bitcoin is for Public Servants!

  Today we talk with former USAID Senior Advisor Bhavna Patel about...

• Bitcoin overcomes the shortcomings of gold
• Realization that asset appreciation comes at the expense of your fellow man
• Will Bitcoin fulfill the promise of peer-to-peer money?
• Continual loss of Bitcoin over time
• Value density that accrues to a finitely scarce denominator
• Deflation is the normal state of the free market
• Global monetary ...

Today we answer the question: Why Do People Trust Bitcoin?

• Trust in centralized vs. decentralized systems
• Shift from trusting humans to trusting mathematics
• Counterparties involved in traditional finance
• Diminishing faith in institutions
• Core reasons people trust Bitcoin
• Adoption telegraphing growing confidence in the network

And more!

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Bitcoin is for Riders!

  Today we talk with Glenn Alan Bartels of Bartels' Harley-Davidson about...

• Asymmetry of Bitcoin progress vs. overall Bitcoin adoption
• Government involvement in Bitcoin
• Bitcoin as a threat to international financial interests
• Complete monetary reset on the horizon
• Is there gold in Ft. Knox?
• Risk of BlackRock market manipulation
• What is Blockchain?
• Lack of counterparty risk in Bitcoin
• Was Satoshi a group? Or a...

Today we check back in with TCB Episode 15 guest Joey Bullock!

  We discuss...

• Surviving the inevitable Bitcoin gut check
• Bitcoin resilience during recent market downturn
• Bitcoin's place in a macroeconomic restructuring
• Ability for Bitcoin to address U.S. debt problem
• Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and nation state game theory
• Tariffs reflect misunderstanding of what causes trade imbalance
• Stablecoins and forced treasury buying
• Owning B...

Yes, THE Andy Edstrom, author of WHY BUY BITCOIN!

  Today we talk with Andy about...

• Always feeling too late to Bitcoin
• Did we skip the "then they fight you" stage?
• Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
• Are Bitcoin cycles dead?
• Nation State game theory and the effect on mining decentralization
• Sovereign Wealth Fund
• Money at the core of political problems
• Generational wealth inequality
• Quantum computing threat

And more!

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Bitcoin is for Law Enforcement!

  Today we talk with Law Enforcement Officer Riza Ozkan about...

• Bitcoin separating itself from all competitors
• Signal of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
• Early stage of Bitcoin adoption
• Politicization concerns
• U.S. recognizing a "need" for Bitcoin
• Demographic shifts are existential to ponzi economic systems
• Fiat mathematically driving wealth inequality
• Bitcoin leans into base human greed to create e...

Bitcoin is for Students!

  Today we talk with Legal Scholar Indra Sapkota about...

• Bitcoin rising in mainstream culture
• Game theory incentivizing early adoption
• Stablecoins on Bitcoin
• Bitcoin mining "Gold Rush"
• Divisibility of Bitcoin
• Convenience of Bitcoin for international payments
• Bitcoin threatening the global monetary monopoly
• Triffin Dilemma and tariffs
• Power of Bitcoin lies in its users
• Inherent value of Bitcoin

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